“I rather like bad wine," said Mr. Mountchesney; "one gets so bored with good wine.”

—  Benjamin Disraeli

Book 1, chapter 1.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Sybil (1845)

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British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Pri… 1804–1881

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